A Report on the Treatment of Ten Cases of Enteric Fever—All Ending in Recovery
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treatment adopted on the temperature, it may be considered as typical of the others. There is no doubt that by the use of cold baths and wet-sheet packing?if used from the beginning of the disease, as laid down by Brand ?we have a powerful means in our hands of subduing) n?t ?f breaking, the course of the fever. It must not be forgotten however that medicinal treatment was not neglected, and that the use of medicines?chiefly antiseptic?were administered as the symptoms denoted their necessity in each individual case. We must remind our readers that they are not to expect typical ranges of temperature in these cases,
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